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Brown Act

How Do We Make a Community Service District Board Comply with the Brown Act?

[…] request for public records, it has ten days to determine whether the request seeks copies of disclosable records, and to either disclose them or cite an applicable exemption and its reasoning why that exemption applies. Cal. Gov. Code § 6253(c). If the agency fails to respond, or otherwise improperly withholds the records, you can […]

January 20, 2021
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CPRA

How May I Obtain A Transcript Of Disciplinary Actions Concerning My Son In Prison?

[…] does indeed have records responsive to the request. Gov’t Code§6253(c). If the agency claims that the records are exempt from public disclosure, it must cite the specific exemption that applies. Id. Sample text for drafting your request can be foundhere. I found the address below for submitting a CPRA request to the Department of […]

February 19, 2021
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CPRA FOIA

Preliminary Data from FEMA as Requested by the City

[…] any state or local agency") (emph. added). Thus, the FEMA data would appear to be a public record subject to disclosure under the California PRA unless an exemption to disclosure applies. If you have not already done so, you should request the data from the City under the PRA. As you are no doubt […]

June 14, 2009
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FAC News Press Release

EFF and ACLU Staffers Win 2017 FAC Award for Work on Public Access to Police Surveillance Records

[…] that the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department could not justify withholding records collected by ALPRs by relying on the so-called "investigative records" exemption to the California Public Records Act (CPRA). The ruling set an important precedent at a time when police are increasingly using dragnet-style technologies to surveil the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 27, 2017
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Brown Act CPRA

Request denied for fire district celebration guest list

[…] not something normally kept on file, any factual sections of the report, and perhaps its observations and analysis, would typically not be precluded from disclosure under this exemption. Citizens for a Better Environment v. Department of Food Agriculture, 171 Cal. App. 3d 704 (1985). Note that the case also said that even if documents […]

August 16, 2013
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CPRA

Court Employee Anonymity

[…] Copley Press, 6 Cal. App. 4th at 113. The public has a right of access to all these documents and the information in those records, unless an exemption applies. On the other hand, "drafts, memoranda, critical analyses of others' work, and all kinds of preliminary writings," which the Court of Appeal "call Category II […]

June 14, 2009
Handbooks

Police Transparency Handbook

[…] as incident reports, investigative files of closed cases, jail booking photos, even arrest reports – are often not publicly available. This handbook does not cover those longstanding exemptions to the California Public Records Act, rather it focuses on the specific categories of records related to police conduct that are now subject to disclosure. To […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 6, 2024
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Court Records CPRA Police Records

Denied access to supervision records of high-risk parolee

November 30, 2011
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Blog

In Separate Moves, State and Federal Courts in California OK Policy Changes Allowing Greater Public Access
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 18, 2009
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Blog Cases

FAC joins environmental access suit against Marin County

March 16, 2015